We used to do it back in the day at school

In didn't see it 69,........

'cos I had my head under the coffee table !

Yeah, good tactic by Dave, saw his interview talking about it earlier today - good captaincy!

.......I was only looking for my broken biscuit Brum !

All though you are correct - and yes its a good idea, it really just leads back to one thing. Weak refs and no one in the FA/FIFA/UEFA just making some simple changes to the ref handbook like other sports. Back when I was younger I was a qualified football ref and hockey umpire, and the difference between the 2 regarding discipline is frankly shocking.

And funnily it is such an easy change I still don't know why it hasn't been done. The rules that are in the handbook and reminded to the players before each game (yes it was actually a thing to go to the changing rooms or some other space before the game to introduce yourself) that during any foul a maxing of 2 players can approach you (the player who committed the foul and their captain), any others will lead to a booking. If players approach on more than 1 occasion the captain will be booked for not being able to control their players.

So a couple of safeguards put into place - again not sure why this isn't done, the refs have the power to easily control the game yet for some reason don't........

BTW this was all 15ish + years ago and yet here we are with undisciplined players

comment by Simon West (U1830)
posted 42 minutes ago
All though you are correct - and yes its a good idea, it really just leads back to one thing. Weak refs and no one in the FA/FIFA/UEFA just making some simple changes to the ref handbook like other sports. Back when I was younger I was a qualified football ref and hockey umpire, and the difference between the 2 regarding discipline is frankly shocking.

And funnily it is such an easy change I still don't know why it hasn't been done. The rules that are in the handbook and reminded to the players before each game (yes it was actually a thing to go to the changing rooms or some other space before the game to introduce yourself) that during any foul a maxing of 2 players can approach you (the player who committed the foul and their captain), any others will lead to a booking. If players approach on more than 1 occasion the captain will be booked for not being able to control their players.

So a couple of safeguards put into place - again not sure why this isn't done, the refs have the power to easily control the game yet for some reason don't........

BTW this was all 15ish + years ago and yet here we are with undisciplined players
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Adding to that, it was stated at the time that VAR would stop players surrounding match officials. Has it feck!

I am sick to the teeth of seeing this every match and its down to weak match officials and weak governance of the game by the FA. All they ever do is feckin talk and do nothing.

Captains only is the rule in rugby and it shoudl be the same in football.

I watched but didn't realise that was the tactic until I read about it this morning. Such an obvious thing to do, once you've seen it done. I'm sure more will do this.

It's quite true what you say Simon & Biggish, in a proper scenario such behaviour shouldn't be happening but the fact is that it (wrongly) does go on and seems to go unpunished, bar the odd booking. It looked like one of their players was trying to play around with the penalty spot also, which we've all seen done before and shouldn't be happening either, which is why our team came up with what I thought was an innovative and unusual tactic to successfully combat it.

In an ideal world there should be a zero tolerance to any of that kind of bollox and whoever is doing it (including us).

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comment by DaveChels (U22639)
posted 35 minutes ago
Have never seen it before. He was also in the ref's ear after the var decision asking if it was a red card too. 5 mins to go and the penalty isn't enoughgreat stuff
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Yeh lets ignore the rules because??

comment by DaveChels (U22639)
posted 38 minutes ago
Have never seen it before. He was also in the ref's ear after the var decision asking if it was a red card too. 5 mins to go and the penalty isn't enoughgreat stuff
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I'm not so pleased about the later.

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